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Adobe  www.adobe.com Provides a range of products for digital media creation and editing, multimedia authoring, and web development. Includes documentation and support for all software.

AfterGRASP  www.aftergrasp.com Application scripting language and compiler for building animations and other multimedia content. [Windows]

AutoPlay Media Studio  www.indigorose.com/ams Tool for creating AutoPlay menus for Windows CDs from existing multimedia content. Free trial available. [Windows]

Dazzler Deluxe  www.dazzlersoft.com A multimedia authoring tool that uses a graphical user interface without any programming necessary.

Digital Workshop  www.digitalworkshop.com Producers of graphics and multimedia software including Opus Presenter and Paint Shop Pro. [Windows]

doubleTwist  www.doubletwist.com Windows software to synchronise and convert media files between different portable devices, including the facility to move iTunes files to other mp3 players. Free download, documentation, and FAQs.

E-Book Systems  www.ebooksys.com Publisher of authoring tools for e-books, online photo albums, and CD shopping carts.

Emulive Imaging Corporation  www.emulive.com Develops and markets an end-to-end e-commerce ready streaming media platform.

Flying Popcorn  www.parasys.net Animation multimedia authoring tool which provides graphical work environment. Creates multimedia contents with 3d sound effects, images, shapes, text and video files.

Formula Graphics  www.formulagraphics.com Software can use sound and graphic files of a wide variety of formats, has search capabilities and supports database SQL queries through ODBC.

Gmedia Music  www.gmediamusic.com Graphics language for professionals is a powerful, flexible and fast multimedia development engine. Includes native support for fonts, animations, MP3 and database connections for the Windows OS.

Impatica.com  www.impatica.com Java-based tool converts Macromedia Director and Microsoft PowerPoint files to web projects. FAQ, user's guide, free trial version.

Leadtools  www.leadtools.com Offers imaging development toolkits supporting color, grayscale, multimedia, vector, document, and medical imaging for a wide range of programming applications.

Magenta MultiMedia Tools  www.magentammt.com Magenta is a development environment for creating multimedia, e-learning, e-business and Internet applications. Includes documentation center and downloadable tutorials with source files.

Media Semantics  www.mediasemantics.com Tools for building rich interactive media content hosted by believable cartoon and 3D characters.

MediaChance  www.mediachance.com Windows-based multimedia authoring system creates autorun CD menus, multimedia applications, demos, presentations, and MP3 players as small stand-alone Windows applications.

MediaForge  www.mediaforge.com Developer tool for multimedia authoring. tool for multimedia authoring. Event-driven and object-based. [Windows]

MediaInfo  mediainfo.sourceforge.net Display extended information on media files. Also provides MediaInfo.dll which can be used by third-party software. [GPL]

MetaCard  www.metacard.com A multimedia authoring tool and GUI development environment for Microsoft Windows 3.1/95/98/NT, Unix/X11, and Macintosh systems.

Miro  www.getmiro.com A free, open source Internet TV and video player that can automatically download videos from RSS-based channels. Features a built-in BitTorrent client. For Windows, Mac OS X and GNU/Linux.

Navarasa Multimedia  www.navarasa.de Shareware multimedia authoring tool for web and CD-ROM projects. Windows.

NeoBook  www.neosoftware.com/nbw.html Tool for creating Windows multimedia applications, useful for promotional, educational, and training purposes. [Windows]

NeoDezign  members.tripod.com/~neodezign Information and resources for using NeoBook, a Windows multimedia development tool. Includes source code, tips and tricks, and discussion.

Ovation Studio Pro  www.risoftsystems.com/ovation.asp Tool for creating professional multimedia applications such as games, storybooks, tutorials, and Computer Based Training (CBT).

PlayMo  www.playmo.com Publishing tool for interactive video, audio, images, and simulation content, appropriate for online manuals, catalogs, and educational applications. [Windows]

PresentWare  www.presentware.com Offer CRE:8 to allow the creation of multimedia CD's, Pictacle for image slide shows and screensavers, and LabelCreator-Pro for designing labels.

Proce55ing  proce55ing.net Open-source environment for learning the fundamentals of electronic art and computer programming.

RealNetworks  www.realnetworks.com Downloads, documentation, support, articles, for the popular range of internet media products.

Simple Star  www.simplestar.com Offer a number of products to manage images and sound, create slideshows, VCDs, and mix audio. Product information, purchasing, and free trial for download. Windows

Six Mile Creek Systems  6sys.com Software development company that offers Springboard, an application for sketching and annotating storyboards for film, video, animation, or other dynamic media.

Skunklabs Liquid Media  www.binaryresearch.net/slm.html Presentation and training authoring tool for DirectX. Freeware version and free trial available. [Windows]

Slim Show  www.pcww.com/web_mat/slimshow.html Authoring tool for interactive Windows applications, optimized for small file sizes. [Windows]

StarterFile  www.trah.co.uk/starterfile Software that enables HTML and other files to be autorun from CD.

StereoMaker  www.foundationcompany.com/stereomaker QuickTime utility to generate 3D movies or images for multimedia productions or games. [Macintosh/Windows]

Storyspace  www.eastgate.com/Storyspace.html A hypertext writing environment designed for large, complex hypertext projects, which can be saved as stand-alone programs or exported to Web.

ToolBook Users' Web  www.toolbook.org Categorized links for Asymetrix ToolBook software.

Toxi  www.toxi.co.uk Interactive artistic visualisations, codebased motion design, demos, audio-visuals and tools using Processing, Shockwave and Flash. Source code released under Creative Commons License.

TurboDemo  www.turbodemo.com Software to allow the creation of demos and tutorials in Flash, Java, EXE and AVI files.

Visviva Software  www.visviva.com Developers of a scriptable multimedia authoring tool supporting object design, 2D and 3D graphics, animation, and hypertext. [Windows]

Vuze  www.vuze.com A file sharing application by Azureus. Allows downloading of high definition TV, movies and videos from BBC Worldwide, National Geographic, Ministry of Sound and the History Channel.

Windows Media  www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia Digital media platform enables the development of applications, creation of multimedia content, and reliable distribution. Downloads, detailed product information, documentation, news.